It’s week two of Veganuary and if you’re undertaking the challenge and feeling a little overwhelmed, let us be your vegan lifestyle guide. First, a gentle reminder to be grateful that you have a choice in what you eat (since almost a billion people go hungry each year), that you have the opportunity to become...
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5 Zero Waste Goals to Help You Reduce Your Environmental Impact in 2021
If you’re looking to live a more sustainable lifestyle and minimise your environmental footprint this year, a great place to start is by embracing the concept of zero waste living. People who commit to a zero-waste or low-impact lifestyle opt for sustainable and reusable alternatives to single-use items, recycle and compost materials, strive to use as...
12 Simple Ways to Use Less Plastic
The holiday season is the most wasteful. According to one study, Americans throw out 25% more trash between Thanksgiving and the New Year. Ready to leave these wasteful habits behind? Here are some eco-friendly habits to incorporate into your life to use less plastic and minimise your environmental impact: 1. Take reusable shopping bags This...
A Holiday Guide to Sustainable Christmas Gifts for Men
When you buy through our links, we may earn fees from our affiliate partners. Learn more. Christmas is unarguably, the most anticipated time of year across our globe. The joy of the season is so incredibly infectious that regardless of our religious inclinations, just about everyone starts to really get into the preparation, the decoration, and...
The Holiday Gift Guide for Eco-Conscious Cooks and Home Entertainers
When you buy through our links, we may earn fees from our affiliate partners. Learn more. The COVID-19 lockdowns have resulted in more people spending time in their kitchens cooking, baking and growing their own herbs and on their benchtops. If you’re giving gifts this holiday season and have a few home chefs and entertainers on...
15 Simple Eco-Friendly and Upcycled Ideas for Christmas Decorations
Do you celebrate the Christmas holidays but still haven’t decorated your place yet? Spent lots on ethical and sustainable gifts and don’t have the budget to splash on Christmas decorations? Not to worry. We’ve curated this list of simple, D-I-Y and eco-friendly Christmas decoration ideas to liven your home this festive season. 1. Toilet paper...
30 Tips for a Zero Waste and COVID-Safe Christmas and New Year Celebrations
With Christmas and New Year just around the corner, an environmental health organization is urging families to celebrate safely and sustainably as the entire planet grapples with the unprecedented climate, plastic and COVID-19 woes. In a bid to promote zero waste, toxin-free and COVID-safe celebrations, the EcoWaste Coalition have collated some zero waste tips from...
How to Make Holiday Gift-Giving Eco-friendly — and More Meaningful
There’s always one on the list — the person who has everything and is notoriously hard to please. That person has likely also received some terrible gimmicky gift, just so that they have something to unwrap. It’s time to put an end to it. Don’t buy the novelty baby Yoda. Don’t buy that game of...
The Guide to Ethical and Eco-Friendly Vegan Christmas Gifts for Every Budget [2020 Edition]
When you buy through our links, we may earn fees from our affiliate partners. Learn more. Giving gifts this holiday season and need some inspiration for what to get the vegans on your Christmas list? We’ve curated this gift guide just for you; it’s filled with stylish and practical ethical and eco-friendly vegan gift ideas that...
How to Be an Environmentally-Conscious Gift Giver this Christmas
Christmas can be tricky to navigate when it comes to sustainability; it is a huge waste-producing holiday but no one wants to be the grinch giving boring gifts. This becomes even trickier when you have kids in your life, so we’ve put together these tips to reduce your environmental footprint while also ticking items off...
The Holiday Guide to Ethical and Eco-Friendly Homeware Gifts For Every Budget [2020 Edition]
When you buy through our links, we may earn fees from our affiliate partners. Learn more. Months of being locked down in our homes thanks to COVID-19 has left many of us wanting to redecorate, brighten up our spaces with art and indoor plants and generally change our home’s feng shui by adding and rearranging pieces....
Sustainable Lifestyle Brand Ettitude Launches Range of Vegan-Friendly Duvets and Pillows
While there are growing cruelty-free and vegan options in the areas of food, fashion and beauty, there are limited choices when it comes to duvets, doonas and pillows. Many traditional duvets, quilts and pillows are made with down feathers – the super soft feathers closest to the skin of a duck or goose usually taken...